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Between 2014 and 2015, the number of students enrolled in schools in Australia grew by 56,872 (1.5%) to a total of 3,750,973. The increase was greater in government schools (1.6%) than non-government schools (1.4%).

In January 2016, 30.5 per cent of federal parliamentarians were women. There is a higher proportion of women in the Senate (38 per cent) than in the House of Representatives (27 per cent).

In 2015, There were 4.3 million Australians with disability — that’s nearly one in five people (18.3% of the total population). After removing the effects of different age structures, the age standardised disability rate for all people was 17.0%.